Creating discursive space through a rhetoric of difference: Chicana feminists craft a homeland

Flores, Lisa A.

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“…One prominent strand of research focuses on the construction of cultural identities in intercultural settings, identifying ways that individuals negotiate relations with the larger discursive frameworks; for example, Nakayama's (1997) description of the competing and contradictory discourses that construct identity of Japanese-Americans, Flores (1994Flores ( , 2003 work on Chicana and Chicano immigrant identities and Lee's (1999) essay on Chinese women's identities all explore the contradictory and competing ways in which identity is constructed. Other examples of research in this paradigm are critical rhetorical studies, for example, Nakayama and Krizek's (1995) study of the rhetoric of Whiteness.…”

Section: Critical Humanist Paradigmmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intercultural Communication and Dialectics Revisited

Martin

Nakayama

2010

The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication

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Ten years ago, we identified and described four distinct paradigms of culture and communication research (functionalist, interpretive, critical humanist, and critical structuralist) based on their metatheoretical assumptions and explored strategies for constructive interparadigmatic discussions (Martin and Nakayama, 1999). We then proposed a new way -a dialectical approach -to conceptualize and study intercultural communication. We suggested that a dialectic perspective could guide future research in two ways. First, as a trans-paradigmatic methodology for studying culture and communication phenomena and second, as a conceptual framework for understanding intercultural communication practice. In this essay we again survey current culture and communication research through a paradigmatic lens, assess the current contributions of a dialectical approach to the study of culture and communication and offer new directions for incorporating a dialectic perspective into our research.After 10 years, revisiting the contemporary terrain of intercultural communication seems warranted. The field has exploded in many different directions that have opened up the very notion of "intercultural" communication. In some ways, the term itself, "intercultural," tends to presume the interaction between discrete and different cultures. We know, however, that cultures have always been in contact and that the notion of cultural difference hides and masks the very ways that cultures have already influenced each other. So rather than cultural difference, our inclination is to put that concept into dialectical tension with cultural similarity to highlight the hybrid and heterogeneous character of all cultures. Ten years later, the very problem of conceptualizing "intercultural communication" remains as vibrant and relevant as ever.

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Section: Critical Humanist Paradigmmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intercultural Communication and Dialectics Revisited

Martin

Nakayama

2010

The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication

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164

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“…The desire for space is the need for both a physical location and an intellectual one. 93 Similarly, the YLO invented an intellectual, political, and physical space in which radical democratic resistance through ''community control'' could be envisioned and, in some cases, realized.…”

Section: Postscript: Social Movement Critique and The Young Lordsmentioning

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Trashing the System: Social Movement, Intersectional Rhetoric, and Collective Agency in the Young Lords Organization's Garbage Offensive

Enck-Wanzer¹

2006

Quarterly Journal of Speech

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Examining the nascent rhetoric of the Young Lords Organization's (YLO) 1969 ''garbage offensive,'' this essay argues that the long-standing constraints on agency to which they were responding demanded an inventive rhetoric that was decolonizing both in its aim and in its form. Blending diverse forms of discourse produced an intersectional rhetoric that was qualitatively different from other movements at the time. As such, the YLO constructed a collective agency challenging the status quo and, in some ways, foreshadowed more contemporary movement discourses that similarly function intersectionally. Examining the YLO's garbage offensive, then, presents rhetorical scholars with an opportunity to revise our understanding of how marginalized groups craft power through rhetoric.The colonized man [sic] who writes for his people ought to use the past with the intention of opening the future, as an invitation to action and a basis for hope. 1[W]e need to develop critical theories of Latino politics. Arguably, the main task for such a theoretical practice should be to devise, from within the movements and/or Darrel Enck-Wanzer is a doctoral candidate in the

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“…Yet by flouting their violations of citizenship laws (their violations of the border), celebrating transnational political and cultural traditions, and embodying racial difference, the protestors problematized citizenship, creating a hybrid ''discursive space.'' 64 In other words, the protest was simultaneously an act of position (i.e., citizenship) and an act of op-position to dominant logics of immigration.…”

Section: Hybridity and Migrationmentioning

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(Re)Bordering the Civic Imaginary: Rhetoric, Hybridity, and Citizenship inLa Gran Marcha

Cisneros¹

2011

Quarterly Journal of Speech

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Creating discursive space through a rhetoric of difference: Chicana feminists craft a homeland

Cited by 95 publications

References 26 publications

Intercultural Communication and Dialectics Revisited

Intercultural Communication and Dialectics Revisited

Trashing the System: Social Movement, Intersectional Rhetoric, and Collective Agency in the Young Lords Organization's Garbage Offensive

(Re)Bordering the Civic Imaginary: Rhetoric, Hybridity, and Citizenship inLa Gran Marcha

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